Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Winston Churchill: Bodyguard of lies
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” —Winston Churchill.
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Simon Sinek: Directions and direction
“Directions are instructions given to explain HOW. Direction is a vision offered to explain WHY.” —Simon Sinek.
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Benjamin Spock: Man
“Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he’s potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of…
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Nick Hornby: Badly written or badly read
“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.” —Nick Hornby.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Mind free from bias
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.” —Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher and activist.
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Joseph Addison: No virtue, but on his own side
“A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.” —Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719).
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Mika Salmi: First and last impression
“Life is full of moments where we make an impact on other people and this is especially true at work. We can’t always control how we are perceived at every moment. But we do have two instances when we can imprint how we will be perceived – – – the first and last impression. ”…
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David Tepper: Riding the river
“If I go through my career, there’s a lot of disappointments; there’s a lot of things that didn’t go right. But those aren’t the things that make you. It’s how you bounce back, and where you move on from there—and what you learn from those things. It’s kind of ‘the river flows’…. You have to…
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Seneca: True estimate
“It is above all things necessary to form a true estimate of oneself, because as a rule we think that we can do more than we are able.” —Seneca.
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Anne Frank: Alone with the heavens
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens.” —Anne Frank, diarist.
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Annie Dillard: Parasitic insects
“I learn that ten percent of all the world’s species are parasitic insects. It is hard to believe. What if you were an inventor, and you made ten percent of your inventions in such a way that they could only work by harnessing, disfiguring, or totally destroying the other ninety percent?” —Annie Dillard, author (b.…
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Verlyn Klinkenborg: Excellent writing
“One of the hardest things about learning to read well is learning to believe that every sentence has been consciously, purposely shaped by the writer. This is only credible in the presence of excellent writing.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg.
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G H Hardy: All in the way of business
“If the Archbishop of Canterbury says he believes in God, that’s all in the way of business, but if he says he doesn’t, one can take it he means what he says.” —G. H. Hardy.
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Willie Nelson: Getting along
“I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone.” —Willie Nelson.
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Neil Strauss: Biggest breakthroughs
“It is the ideas that don’t make sense, the ideas that you resist, the ideas that seem stupid, the ideas that you mentally write-off, and especially the ideas that you form logical arguments against that will lead to your biggest breakthroughs.” —Neil Strauss.
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Karl Popper: Greatest intellectual sin
“The new basic principle is that in order to learn to avoid making mistakes, we must learn from our mistakes. To cover up mistakes is, therefore, the greatest intellectual sin.” — Karl Popper.
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Henri Poincare: Science
“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” —Henri Poincare.
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Duke Ellington: Deadline
“I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.” —Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (29 Apr 1899-1974).
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Penelope Cruz: Someone else’s point of view
“You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.” —Penelope Cruz.
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Roy T Bennett: Negativity
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” —Roy T Bennett.
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Arthur Koestler: Creative activity
“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” —Arthur Koestler, writer and journalist.
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Hans Rosling: Very serious possibilist
“I am not an optimist. I am a very serious possibilist.” –– Hans Rosling.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Woman’s sceptre
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” —Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797).
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John F Kennedy: Let every nation know
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” —John F Kennedy.
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Peter L Bernstein: Halfway home
‘Time is the dominant factor in gambling. Risk and time are opposite sides of the same coin, for if there were no tomorrow there would be no risk. Time transforms risk, and the nature of risk is shaped by the time horizon: the future is the playing field. Time matters most when decisions are irreversible.…
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Simon Sinek: Bosses versus leaders
“A boss who micromanages is like a coach who wants to get in the game. Leaders guide and support, then sit back to cheer from the sidelines.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dante Alighieri: Worldly fame
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.” —Dante Alighieri.
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George Bernard Shaw: A fool’s brain
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.” —George Bernard Shaw, playwright.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik: Night and morn
“There never was night that had no morn.” —Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, poet and novelist (26 Apr 1826-1887).
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Warren Buffett: Important and knowable
“We try to think about things that are both important and knowable. There are important things that are not knowable…. And there are things that are knowable, but not important — and we don’t want to clutter up our minds with those. We ask ourselves: ‘What’s important and knowable?’… There are all kinds of important…
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Charlie Munger: Currents
“We’re not predicting the currents that will come just how some things will swim whatever the currents may be.” —Charlie Munger (1998 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, via Outstanding Investor Digest).
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Simon Sinek: Hope
“If there are people who care, then there is hope. If hope is lost, then no one will care.” —Simon Sinek.
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Margaret Thatcher: Profound belief
“I place a profound belief — indeed a fervent faith — in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence.” —Margaret Thatcher, prime minister.
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C Joybell C: Day I understood everything
“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.” —C Joybell C.
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Wolfgang Pauli: Publishing faster than you think
“I don’t mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think.” —Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (25 Apr 1900-1958) .
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Ben Franklin: Crosses and losses
“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wise.” —Ben Franklin.
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Charlie Munger: What human enterprises need
“There’s integrity, intelligence, experience and dedication. That’s what human enterprises need to run well.” —Charlie Munger.
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Thomas Hobbes: Men’s avarice
“The bonds of words are too weak to bridle men’s avarice .” —Thomas Hobbes.
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Simon Sinek: Show respect
“We can respect people even if we disagree with them. Feel free to disapprove of actions but remember to show respect for what inspires others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Al Pacino: Shyness
“My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.” —Al Pacino.
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Eric Holder: Worth minding
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.” —Eric Hoffer, writer and social critic.
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Ward Cunningham: Simplicity
“Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.” —Ward Cunningham, computer programmer.
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Anthony Trollope: Best-dressed
“I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.” —Anthony Trollope, novelist (24 Apr 1815-1882).
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Warren Buffett: Get it corrected
“[Charlie and I] really don’t worry. We just do the best we can. When we have capital to allocate, sometimes it’s very easy to do and sometimes it’s almost impossible. However, we’re not going to stay up at night and worry about it – – – because the world changes. If we were worried about…
